How to submit a
succesfull
proposal
Training of National Judges on
Competition Law
Presented by
Raffaella Battella
Programme Manager – DG Competition – EU Commission
Structure of this presentation
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Understand the Call
I. Scope and expected results
II. Target audience
III. Timetable
IV. Priority Areas
Design your project
Do you need a partner?
Submitting a potential successful proposal
Fill in your proposal and forward budget
1. Understand the Call
• First of all….
READ THE
CALL for
PROPOSALS!
1.I. Scope and expected results
• Projects must (…) clearly demonstrate their EU added-value.
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You can achieve an EU added value also with small-scale
and national actions.
EU added value shall be assessed in the light of criteria such
as:
- their contribution to the consistent and coherent
implementation of Union law and to wide public awareness
about the rights deriving from it;
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their potential to develop mutual trust among Member
States and to improve cross- border cooperation;
- their transnational impact, their contribution to the
elaboration and dissemination of best practices or their
potential to create practical tools and solutions that address
cross-border or Union-wide challenges.
The funny side of this is that
• you should demontrate it (EU value added)
we should measure it…
1.II. Target Audience
"Judicial staff"
WHO?
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Judges
Prosecutors
Judicial court staff
Bailiffs
Notaries
Mediators
One or several professions
From where?
Participants from one or
several Member States
(or acceding/candidate
country)
What if I include in my project
participants who do not fall in the
category of "Target Audience"?
You can open the participation to
ANY individual/professionals BUT
-the costs linked to their
participation (travels,
accommodations, meals etc.) will be
NOT reimbursed
-number of non eligible should be
limited.
• Take in consideration that:
• - You may decide to have paying participants =
all profit will be deducted from the EU
Commission contribution
• - In some countries some professionals do not
feel at ease when trained together….
1.III. Timetable
For instance…
Your budget could be reviewed (normally
reduced) if:
- Evaluators recommend it (ex. high costs for
publications, speakers' fees are excessive etc);
- The TOJ team detect mistakes in calculations or
attribution of headings
- Your costs are not market-oriented
See also adjustments phase
When you design and write
your project, you must take
this in consideration!
Remember to insert in your budget a
trip to Brussels (flight,
accommodation, meals etc.)!
1.IV. Priority areas (CALL 2014)
• 1) Improvement of knowledge, application and
interpretation of EU competition law;
• 2) Support to National Judicial Institutions
on Competition Law knowledge;
• 3) Improving and/or creating
cooperation/networks;
• 4) Residual* funding for linguistic trainings
2. Design your project
• It is possible that you already have a project in
mind….
maybe it is simply a project you are running since years
maybe it is a basic project you always wanted to
implement but your institution had no money for it....
Innovation
Tradition
Seminars,
conferences, basic
or advanced
trainings…
E-learning
platform, webinar,
skype lessons ,
facebook groups…
MIX
E-learning+ residential training,
simulation of cases, virtual classes,
erasmus (exchange of staff for long
periods)…..
Initial
trainings
Advanced
trainings
E-learning
Creation of
established
networks
Exchange of
staff
Linguistic
trainings
Creation of
database
Simulation
of cases
3. Do you need a partner?
Think about all the tasks you will need to
perform and the resources needed:
Prepare the
material/find
speakers
Book location,
book meals,
flight,
accommodation
etc
Market the
event
Produce
material to be
published
Having a strong partnership (ministry, NCA, judicial
schools etc.) is surely a plus but not a condition for
financing!
3. Do you need a partner?
• If you do need a partner and you don't have one
available:
• - think about your government;
• - think about universities;
• - think about EU networks/representation (such
as EJTN);
• - think about contacting our former beneficiaries!
• - contact us and we will publish your search on
our website!
4. Submitting a potential successful
proposal
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Let's start with some basics…
- check your target audience
- check your priority areas (one or more)
- check the timetable of your project
- fill in the application form + annexes and remember to sign and
date them!
• - make sure to send your proposal before the end of the deadline
(check if the post is clearly stamping the date on it and keep the
receipt!)
Need
Quality
Structure
•Pre-identify training needs (surveys, past experience, on the field knowledge etc.).
Try to convince us of this real need!
•Adapt the contents to the type of audience (apprentice or senior judges, first
instance or supreme court judges, courts staff, bailiffs, notaries etc.);
•Keep in consideration the type of audience and adapt duration, content,
methodology, speakers…
•Pay attention to all the training phases: send pre-reading material, provide
sufficient documentation during session and exercise etc.
•Passive learning is not always the best choice! Introduce case studies, simulations
etc.
•Short or long term trainings? Distance or residential? Conference or seminars?
Respect the nature and specifications of it!
•Evaluation questionnare (before and after)!
•Preparation-inscriptions-implementation-follow up
•Every successful event start with a good marketing strategy and ends with a
sustainable result (publication, website, platform, database, collection of material
etc)
The 5 Award criteria to assess
1. RELEVANCE (30 points)
2. QUALITY (30 points)
5. COST EFFECTIVENESS (20
points)
a)
Are the methodology
(approach,
detail
and
specificity of the proposed a) Is the forward budget
a) The extent to which
activities, quality of the reasonable,
given
the
the proposal matches the
speakers, monitoring systems, expected results and in
objectives of the call (10
marketing strategies etc.) and terms of cost per day of one
points)
the timeframe suitable to trained judge (10 points)?
achieve the desired outcome of
the project? (10 points)
b) The extent to which
b) Do the costs allocated in
the proposal matches the
each section of the budget
b) Are the proposed activities
requirement
of
an
represent a good value for
suitably designed for the
European added value
money in respect to the
expected audience (10 points)?
announced in section 2.1
average market price (10
(10 points)
points)?
c) The extent to which
c) To what extent the design
the proposal matches the
of
the
projects
allows
priority areas set in the
achieving its goals (balanced
call and is tailored for
distribution of tasks, best
national judges (by role,
choice of expertise etc.) (10
function, seniority) (10
points)?
points)
4.DISSEMINATION (10
points)
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5. GEOGRAPHICALL SCOPE (10
points)
a)
How wide
is the geographical impact a) Are there effective in terms of expected results plans put in place for of the project (based on
appropriate and timely variety
of
nationalities
disseminations/sharing involved
in
terms
of
of results? (5 points) participants, targeted group
and/or
partnership)?
(5
points)
b)
Extra points
will be awarded to projects
b) Are the results involving nationalities less
likely to have a reached by previous projects
sustainable impact? (5 funded under the Training of
points)
National
Judges
on
Competition Law Programme
.(5 points)
To qualify for an award, the project must obtain at least 60 out of 100 points and at least
50 % of the points available for criteria 1, 2 and 5.
Remember
• Training in cross-border context? Think of
interpretation, translation of material, choose
speakers with linguistic skills and competences
with multi-national audience.
• Location is key for attractiveness.
• Advertise at least 3/6 months in advance.
5. Fill in your proposal and
forward budget
Basic rules:
We are talented
but we are not
able to read your
minds…YET!
Evaluators do not know you!
Clearly describe your project!
Don't repeat yourself!
Fill in every section of your application form
(=corresponding to budget).
If you don't understand something…refer to the
Guide of Applicants available on our website or
write to us COMP-TRAINING-JUDGES@ec.europa.eu
Application form = Annex 0
Applicant is who is submitting the application!
The applicant will take all the
money and will spend it!
The applicant+co-beneficiary
will share the money and will
spend it!
Date of the project- see Timetable
Total budget = total forward budget
=
YOUR BUSINESS CARD
Finished? No!
• You probably forgot something…
The award criteria!!!!
Basic rules
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Present a balanced budget in EURO
Eligible costs!
Cost of staff ≤ 50% of the total budget
80% from the EU, 20% from you
If your project is well planned in advance, you
will not miss any cost (oupss, we forgot the
shuttles/meals/interpreters/advertisement costs
etc.)
• Corrections and adjustments
Ready to apply?
• You still have a month and a half to do it!
Thank you
• Questions?
• COMP-TRAINING-JUDGES@ec.europa.eu
• Tel .97883